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Old 08-15-08, 11:41 AM
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List mid to high end Brand Touring Bikes

Hi, please list here all mid to high end, Brand and Model names I can find in Touring Bikes.
Full blown Tourers, or "Sport Tourers" only, not race or cross bikes.
Custom mades or Factory brands.
No entry level priced models that require lots of upgrades to perform reliably.

Please list Brands you recommend for reliability, that's my foremost concern.
Individual bike part listings are not what I need, just complete bikes for this particular thread.
Price ranges for new/used are welcome too. Age is not a factor, new or vintage is fine.
Thanks so much for all your help here on the forums !
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Originally Posted by TourTime
Hi, please list here all mid to high end, Brand and Model names I can find in Touring Bikes.
Full blown Tourers, or "Sport Tourers" only, not race or cross bikes.
Custom mades or Factory brands.
No entry level priced models that require lots of upgrades to perform reliably.

Please list Brands you recommend for reliability, that's my foremost concern.
Individual bike part listings are not what I need, just complete bikes for this particular thread.
Price ranges for new/used are welcome too. Age is not a factor, new or vintage is fine.
Thanks so much for all your help here on the forums !
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Why not spend some time reading stuff already here instead of wasting people's time with silly open ended questions.
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Originally Posted by njkayaker
Why not spend some time reading stuff already here instead of wasting people's time with silly open ended questions.
A single thread containing a comprehensive Brand listing would be most helpful.
I have already perused many of the threads and have not found this list, tell me if it exists already.

I found the boards here very informative and did find some brand names.
Just want them all in one place and any extra that I may have missed.

Nice Touring bikes are scarce on the used market and it would be great to know as many as possible.
All responses are greatly appreciated, at least those containing actual help are anyway.
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Originally Posted by TourTime
I found the boards here very informative and did find some brand names.
Just want them all in one place and any extra that I may have missed.
Why don't you start with what you've found, folks here can fill in the gaps?
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Of course, my Thorn Sherpa is better than everyone's bike. In fact, I heard that there won't be any more bikes made, ever, because it's so great.

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Originally Posted by eric von zipper
Of course, my Thorn Sherpa is better than everyone's bike. In fact, I heard that there won't be any more bikes made, ever, because it's so great.
Case closed, who can argue w/that?
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LHT in it's cheap config doesn't actually have many weak parts no more than anyone would have to change like saddles and bars. Canondale. Rivendell. Rocky Mouintain. In fact there was a review of this exact kind of stuff in the current Bicycling. Trek was listed.

The thing with touring bikes is that even custom ones aren't that much different on the components. Except you might see Phil based wheels, or Rohloff, or Paul brakes, Chris King headset. But drop out of that stratosphere, and you are pretty close to the same grade of components on most bikes. There aren't any groupos, let alone 10 different levels.

The same kind of compression exists with the frames, these are not high tech items. Standard chromo, even unbutted, works great.
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Originally Posted by TourTime
A single thread containing a comprehensive Brand listing would be most helpful.
I have already perused many of the threads and have not found this list, tell me if it exists already.
Maybe you could compile a list, and it could be posted to help others?

Sorry to be blunt, but the information is already here. Most view forums as a place for discussion and research. You wouldn't go into a library and ask, "What types of dogs would be best for me?", you'd ask, "Where can I find information on dogs?".
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Ahh, what the heck. I'll throw this dude a bone :

Trek 520 (and other *20's)
Bruce Gordon BLT, BLT-X, Rock N' Road, Rock N' Road Ex
Rivendell Atlantis
Fuji Touring
Jamis Aurora
Bianchi Volpe
Surly Big Dummy
Panasonic
Miyata 1000
Novara Randonee, Safari
Giant Tran Sport (?!?! Weird bike)

...Not to mention countless (well, maybe 5) other manufacturers (mostly classic/vintage: Schwinn, Specialized, Bridgestone, Cannondale etc...)

Oh yea, that Thorn is pretty schweet
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Originally Posted by TourTime
A single thread containing a comprehensive Brand listing would be most helpful.
Why would it be helpful? You don't say.

Originally Posted by TourTime
I have already perused many of the threads and have not found this list, tell me if it exists already.
These kinds of lists aren't that helpful because they are never complete.

Originally Posted by TourTime
Nice Touring bikes are scarce on the used market and it would be great to know as many as possible.
It would much more efficient to do a search on these "scarce" bikes when they come up.

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LHT [...] Canondale. Rivendell. Rocky Mouintain. [...] Trek was listed.
And all of these will be familiar with anybody reading these forums for more than a week.

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Co-Motion Americano - standard or co-pilot (w/S&S connectors for traveling)
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Good show J. C. Koto I own three of the tourers you list. Now add Cannondale. I am now using a Bruce Gordon BLT, the most rugged bike I have owned. Please check out www.bgcycles.com . Note that Bruce uses thicker tubing then most and spells out why.
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Here is a helpful list from the Adventure Cycling Association:
https://www.adventurecycling.org/feat...uide_bikes.cfm

I hope in return for this modest favor the OP will have the decency to go to the ACA and pay their modest annual membership fee.

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Originally Posted by eric von zipper
Of course, my Thorn Sherpa is better than everyone's bike. In fact, I heard that there won't be any more bikes made, ever, because it's so great.
Crap! Why oh why did I keep stalling on getting a bike?

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Originally Posted by J.C. Koto
Ahh, what the heck. I'll throw this dude a bone :

Trek 520 (and other *20's)
Bruce Gordon BLT, BLT-X, Rock N' Road, Rock N' Road Ex
Rivendell Atlantis
Fuji Touring
Jamis Aurora
Bianchi Volpe
Surly Big Dummy
Panasonic
Miyata 1000
Novara Randonee, Safari
Giant Tran Sport (?!?! Weird bike)

...Not to mention countless (well, maybe 5) other manufacturers (mostly classic/vintage: Schwinn, Specialized, Bridgestone, Cannondale etc...)

Oh yea, that Thorn is pretty schweet
Rodriguez www.rodcycle.com
Co-Motion
Moots Mootour
Independent Fabrication Steel Independence
Davidson www.davidsonbicycles.com
Kogo Miyata (some place in Santa Barbara now imports and sells them; just saw one the other day)

I think someone mentioned Bilenky.

And, let's not forget, the Bike Friday New World Tourist!
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Please list all high paying jobs. I'm looking for a job.
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Originally Posted by Speedo
Crap! Why oh why did I keep stalling on getting a bike?

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BTW, after the post above, I bought *all* the Thorns left in the world. You'll have to buy yours from me.
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I find some of the responses to this question rather rude. If you are not interested in a sincere
reply why bother with such snobbish retorts. Maybe some of you have been reading Bicycling
Magazine lately?
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Originally Posted by BengeBoy
BTW, after the post above, I bought *all* the Thorns left in the world. You'll have to buy yours from me.
Nooooooooooooooo!
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Originally Posted by biking nurse
I find some of the responses to this question rather rude. If you are not interested in a sincere
reply why bother with such snobbish retorts. Maybe some of you have been reading Bicycling
Magazine lately?
I personally think the OP was given an opportunity to go back and at least demonstrate that he/she had done a little homework. The OP replied that he wanted the community to do the work.

At the end of the day, there's a pretty good list posted here, plus a link to an even more complete list.

Did you notice any omissions that would be helpful?

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You would get a lot better response if you didn't phrase your post in the imperative. It's really hard to order people to do things over the internet. Maybe English isn't your first language, but you would sound a lot less rude if you said, "could you recommend some high end brand names".
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arent we getting paid to do this?
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Originally Posted by Lou627
arent we getting paid to do this?
Yes!

And, how could I forget the Seven Vicanza Titanium framed touring bike? $9,000 fully loaded.

I just earned another dime.
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When I read the original post, I also felt a little annoyance. I'm not sure why. I didn't send a flame, but I also didn't take the time to consider composing such a list. If I tried, I'm sure I'd forget plenty, and I'd have a hard time putting them in any kind of order. Maybe some of the responses were a little rude, but nobody punched anybody in the nose. Ya pays your money and ya takes your chances.

I like your Thorn, but my LHT can probably beat it up.
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